I'm not jealous! I am perfectly capable of demolishing the sighted in games like this, as are several others on this list. I just happen to consider him either extremely lucky, or extremely spoiled. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:41 AM Subject: RE: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan
> I'd like to actually be there and watch him play. > Let's face it. How many of us can bowl over our sighted counterparts in a > game? If the kids good, he's good! No need to be jealous. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brandon Cole > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > > Ridiculous. Absolutely positively ridiculous. Do you have any idea how > many > of us could get this same kind of publicity if we tried? I find this > pathetic. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:26 PM > Subject: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition > > in Japan > > >> Ladies and Gentlemen, >> >> Please let me know your thoughts on this situation. >> The individual, in another article, is now styled as "the blind >> gamer." >> >> Ryan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Amy Buresh >> To: undisclosed recipients: >> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:29 AM >> Subject: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan >> >> >> This article from today's Lincoln Journal Star >> >> Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan by >> hilary kindschuh/Lincoln Journal Star >> >> The latest challenger stands up, defeated. >> >> LINCOLN, NE- 06 JAN 07 - Blind videogamer Brice Mellen plays a >> practice >> game of Mortal Kombat before taking on anyone willing to challenge him at >> DogTags >> Gaming Center on Sunday afternoon. Filming him was a crew from Nippon >> Television in Japan, who is sponsoring Mellen's upcoming trip to Japan to >> take on >> that country's best players. Jill Peitzmeier/jp Lincoln Journal Star >> >> "Next victim," says someone in the crowd. >> >> Another competitor trudges to the front of the room, sits in a black >> chair >> facing a large television screen and picks up a video game controller. >> >> Everyone knows it's hopeless. >> >> During a special Mortal Kombat competition on Sunday at the DogTags >> Gaming >> Center in northeast Lincoln, Brice Mellen effortlessly defeated one >> opponent >> after another as he rocked in his chair, his back to the television >> screen. >> >> Brice wasn't showing off by turning away from the video characters >> fighting on a platform under a rainy, overcast sky. He can't see them. >> >> Brice, 18, who has been blind since birth due to Leber's disease, >> began >> attracting attention for his video gaming prowess last summer when he was >> featured >> on several television programs, including NBC's Today Show. >> >> Later this month the Lincoln East High School senior and his father >> will >> travel to Japan, where Brice will compete with some of Japan's best >> Mortal > >> Kombat >> players as part of a special for Nippon TV's Power of Memory, Part III. >> >> A Japanese film crew from Nippon TV came to Lincoln over the weekend >> to >> shoot footage of Brice at his home and at the gaming center. >> >> Sunday's special competition at DogTags was designed as a warmup to >> help >> Brice prepare for the tournament. >> >> Brice trumped all challengers in best of three rounds competition - >> most >> were defeated in under three minutes. A couple managed to win their first >> round >> but Brice always came back to win rounds two and three. >> >> Brice's sister, 19-year-old Sharon Mellen, said they started playing >> Mario >> Brothers video games with their step-sisters about 10 years ago. >> >> "We went through a lot of controllers," Sharon said. >> >> Eventually, Brice moved on to a Sega Genesis, Sharon said. That's when >> he >> started playing Mortal Kombat. >> >> "Then it was love thereafter," she said. >> >> Brice's family didn't realize how talented he was until he came to the >> DogTags, Sharon said. >> >> "Kids don't want to play him," she said. "They're scared to lose." >> >> By listening to the different sounds in the game, Brice said, he can >> anticipate what his opponent will do. >> >> "But you've got to attack, too," he said. >> >> After Brice defeated all of his challengers Sunday, a member of the >> Japanese film crew asked him if he was confident he would always win. >> >> "Who knows? There could be somebody out there better than me," Brice >> said, >> rocking in his chair. "That's why I've got to keep playing, so I can win >> if we >> ever meet." >> >> Reach Hilary Kindschuh at 473-7301 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> Yahoo! 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